this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
1036 points (98.2% liked)
Technology
58017 readers
3690 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You realize that Microsoft code is inspected as well, even more heavily and regulated... and yet they still end up with major breaches. Security evolves through open source collaboration and inspection by experts that aren't being paid to say you're doing a good job.
You are making a lot good points... But is there any other practical solution?
Seems this is the best a normie on budget can get
They're not actually good points at all... Proton's open sourcing of the clients is for the purpose of trust in terms of security and privacy. The backend doesn't matter because the point is that the data is encrypted before it ever gets to the backend. The goal with Proton's open sourcing is not the ability to make it self-hostable. Sure, a lot of concerns are valid, but this isn't like Microsoft or Google. Nearly all of Proton is verifiably and provably secure. Well, at least as long as you trust the web clients being served are the ones whose code is publicly available. But again... You can't verify that with any SaaS. Such a risk is even present with self-hosting tbh. But that's another discussion.